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DRIVER’S MACCAS EXCUSE

But when police eventually caught up with Jose ... she told them she simply lost control of her car while on an early-morning Maccas run.

A THOMSON mum did a runner after spinning her car and crashing it into a parked vehicle in East Geelong, a court heard yesterday.

Captured on CCTV, the bingle happened in the early hours of the day after Teagen Jose’s 25th birthday in June, with both cars written off.

But when police eventually caught up with Jose days later she said she wasn’t out on the town celebrating that night. Rather, she told them, she simply lost control of her car while on a Maccas run.

Magistrate Clive Alsop said it was the latest example of the mother-of-three’s “shocking driving history” and her disregard for court orders banning her from driving.

“She’s facing prison,” he said. “It was obviously a pretty major impact.”

Police prosecutor Sergeant Peter Beard said Jose was driv- ing on Lomond Tce about 2.40am on June 16 when she lost control of her car, spun it 180 degrees and hit a parked Hyundai hatchback, pushing it into a light pole.

Officers arrived minutes later but Jose had already gone, leaving her purse with ID cards in it in her mangled car.

Security camera footage showed the woman exit her car after the crash and run south, and when officers went to the woman’s home minutes later she was yet to arrive.

So they caught up with her two days later and quizzed her about the crash.

Sgt Beard said Jose told them she was driving to a McDonald’s restaurant when another car crossed her path, forcing her to swerve and lose control. “(However) the CCTV shows no other vehicle on the road prior to the crash,” Sgt Beard said.

Disqualified from driving at the time and on a community corrections order for road offences, the woman told police she had no memory of what happened after the crash, but didn’t believe her driving was careless.

However, she pleaded guilty to careless driving in court yesterday, and also counts of driving disqualified, failing to report a crash and breaching the CCO.

After hearing about the personal issues that prevented Jose from fulfilling the requirements of her existing CCO, Mr Alsop decided to adjourn the woman’s sentencing on those charges. She has until February 18 to progress the CCO, and will be sentenced for the East Geelong crash that day.